“On reason build resolve, that column of true majesty in man.”
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“Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.”
“Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.”
“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, reigns more or less, and glows in every heart.”
“Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.”
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
“Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it.”
“Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death.”
“Whence come wars, and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lusts of the body?”
“Indeed, life would be unliveable, even if I did not notice the change.”
“The being of all virtues, and chiefly of temperance, depends on the practice of them.”